Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Day 8 - Monday

We left the hill country and Nuwara Eliya behind and travelled down to the flat country again yesterday (Monday).  As we descended we came across Hindu temples, monkeys and waterfalls before we reached our lunch stop.

In the afternoon we visited the Elephant Transit Home at Udawalawe. It is a project which takes in abandoned or lost young elephants (under 7 years old) and let's them roam in the park and they feed them milk and foliage until they are old enough to be released back into the wild. It was an amazing experience to watch them having their dinner.  Some were so small they had to be bottle-fed by hand separately from the others.

We then left the elephants and travelled to the national park at Yala which is our base for the next two nights.

Tomorrow is an early start for a safari.




They say there's an awful lot of coffee in Brazil and there certainly seems to be quite a bit of tea in Sri Lanka as well













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